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Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
 The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is a costumed funk/street beat improvisational brass band performing a unique blend of original and traditional music. Leader Ken Field is a longtime member of the modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. The group's 2nd CD, Forked Tongue (2008), spent 2 months on the CMJ North American jazz top 20 chart, peaking at #11, and appeared on best-of-2008 lists in the Village Voice & in Estonia, plus in Georgia, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan, Massachusetts, Ohio, and NY. The disc features unique treatments of music by Field, Ornette Coleman, Billy Idol, and others. Notable Revolutionary Snake Ensemble performances have included the Krewe of Muses Mardi Gras Parade (New Orleans); Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the Cambridge River Festival; ArtBeat; the Central Square World's Fair; Tonic (NYC); the Somerville Theater; First Nights Boston, Providence, Fall River; the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); the Brooklyn Academy of Music; the Puffin Cultural Forum; the Big Top (New Orleans); Berklee Performance Center; and other venues. The Snake Ensemble has traveled by train five times from Boston to New Orleans, playing on board the Amtrak Crescent, to march with the Krewe of Muses in their annual Mardi Gras parade. The Ensemble can be heard on Parade of Numbers, an animated counting piece regularly aired on the television program Sesame Street. RSE's debut release, Year of the Snake (2003), included music by Field, Sun Ra, John Scofield, James Brown, and others, and was listed as one of the top discs of the year on New York NPR affiliate WNYC, in the New Orleans Gambit Weekly, and on Radio Popolare in Milan, Italy. "Boston's own rabble of horn players and drummers bring a positively Sun Ra shine to second-line music" --- Jed Gottlieb, The Boston Herald "They've pretty much modernized the traditional concept, and they've spun it into a singular sound that's very unique and very vibrant. They accelerated the norm. They went past the tried and true. They managed to do it all with a very distinct musical persona." - All About Jazz writer Glenn Astarita on NPR's Morning Edition "Captures the abandon of a street parade while expanding its stylistic scope ... it's got the essential ingredients spiced with fresh flavors." - Dan Ouellette, regular contributor to Downbeat Night Life Pick of the Week: "The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, a writhing, horn-heavy group led by the Boston-based saxophonist and composer Ken Field, dresses in feathered masks and sequined robes and covers a broad range of funk- and New Orleans-inspired music. A seasoned collection of horn and percussion players, the group, which is closing in on two decades of music-making, puts a funky spin on everything from Billy Idol to Ornette Coleman." --- The New Yorker, May 19, 2008 "Urban tribal music that blends an audacious New Orleans brass band spirit with the sensual fever of African and Latin rhythms." --- The Boston Herald Browse by Subject / Keywords Browse by date Find items from year: All items (most recently added first) - RightsOn Behalf Of Ken FieldSent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:13 AM To: etree Subject: [Etree] Permission to post live audio of Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Y'all hereby have permission to post any live recordings of the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble on this here LMA! -Ken Recently Reviewed Items (more)This Just In (more)Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Live at Tipitina's Uptown on 2009-02-193 years ago |
